A couple of essays about the issues of fanfic getting traditional publishing book deals. This post is dedicated to

Some key points:

• It's bad for fandom — authors yanking their fanfics moves fandom closer to white heteronormative media. Authors may start writing with the intent of getting published after they build up an audience on fanfiction sites.

• It's bad for traditional publishing — fanfic is built on an existing IP, with a built-in audience. Why accept an original manuscript when you can get one that's already beloved, with just enough plausible deniability to not get sued?

• Jenny Hamilton writes: "Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism. The job of agents and editors is to find authors whose books will be successful, which means finding ways to c

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